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Millia Strategy Update:

Overview

Starter Guide

Beginner Tips

If you're a new player, and you're trying to learn Millia, read the Blockstring sections and learn these combos:

Starter: 2P > 2P > 236S. Reasonable damage and soft knockdown from defensive mashing 2P.
Starter: 5K > 2D or 2K > 2D into 236H for H Disk oki. After this, you can time an airdash to either crossup or stay on the same side, and then either land 2K for a low or airdash j.H for an overhead. It's Millia's strongest point and 2K is her second fastest starter, so aim for this.
Starter: c.S(2) > 2H > 214P. This is also used after 236H Disc hits. alternatively, c.S > 2D into 236H for H Disk oki.
Starter (charged): 5[D]8 > j.H > j.D > j.H > j.D > j.H > j.D > j.D
Common Roman Cancel points: j.236P, Throw, FRRC 214P ender.

The next step could be a route that gives you better reward from c.S such as a better knockdown (c.S(2) > 2H > 214K > 214P) or more damage with a relaunch (after Disk hits, Red RC, air-to-air hit, etc: c.S(2) > j.D jc delay j.S > j.S > cS > 214P).

General Strategy

Your general gameplan as Millia is to take advantage of her unique movement options (fast run, extra airdash, and movement specials j.236H, 214K and j.236K) to navigate neutral until you can land a hit into some type of knockdown (2D, Ground Throw, and 214P). From there, you have a wide array of options to meaty your opponent on wake-up, enabling mixups or, at least, keeping pressure.

Most of your time in neutral will be using your movement to take threatening but safe positions to control space and bait commitments out of your opponent. Moving forward without committing to a risky approach (e.g. FD braking, forward jump, dash neutral jump) will allow you take space and flex the threat of your burst options while keeping the ability to weave around your opponent. Millia's fast movement and access to unique approach angles means that you can quickly any opening into offensive momentum. Her strong okizeme and fast paced pressure allows her to retain that offensive momentum.

Be patient on defense, and try to create openings with FD. Millia takes a lot of damage, it's very important that you understand your opponent's offense. Trying to superjump or fuzzy jump out is often the safest bet. Your next best option is pressing 2P when you expect a gap, as it's her fastest option and faster than most jabs at 4 frames. 2K > 2D is a decent option at 6 frames of startup and for longer reach with great reward, as well as low profiling many moves, but the extra startup could make the difference in getting counterhit or not. Millia can spend 50 meter for Winger (632146H) or YRC as metered defensive options, but carry the risk of a high damage punish if baited and the situation afterwards when successful tends to be underwhelming, so it's preferable to use FD to give Millia space to escape with her movement and nullify most chip damage.

Anti-Airs

Millia's best grounded options are 5P, c.S and 6P. 5P has good horizontal range paired with a low total duration making it a great move to check with when you suspect an air approach but don't want to commit to too much, and has good conversions off an airhit. Due to c.S's vertical reach, as well as great reward on airhit, c.S is a very good anti air for horizontally close opponent's above Millia's head. 6P is slightly slower than the others but is highly active and a dominant disjoint with it's hurtbox shifting, allowing it to catch almost every air approach. It's reward on air counterhit with 214K>236H for meaty H disc oki is also very high.

As Millia, you will often be the one trying to get in from the air in most matchups. As such, you air-to-air buttons are your best friends. j.S has the best range and highest reward, but j.K or mashing j.P is faster on defense.

Neutral

Mid Range / Footsies

The midrange is the ideal place for Millia to be in during neutral, her buttons have a good balance of range and speed, and her fast movement allows her to weave in and out of her opponent's threat range quickly. For defensive space control, 5P, f.S, and j.S (both rising and falling) are great options for checking your opponent's movement. While slower in startup, 2S is valuable for stopping your opponent from brute forcing through your space with low profile. 6P and 2P round out her defensive neutral: 6P is rewarding and reliable if you're able to react early to a jumpin/IAD and 2P is her fastest button, useful for reacting to sudden burst movements or when leaving blockstun. Being deliberate with these buttons and combining them with evasive movements is key to mastering Millia's space control. Play your cards right, and your opponents may find themselves cornered without ever explicitly losing neutral.

When it's time to take the offensive, dash 5K is a high reward poke that has great cancel options on hit and block. Dash 2K/2S are strong options to immediately present a low, 2K is appealing for its speed and 2D and 2S for its range and CH reward. IAD and jumpin j.H/j.236H are evasive high reward gap closers. Should you find the need to directly crush the opponent's options, 6P has low startup and is active for its kind, 236S is a fast projectile that can go over many low options, and finally 214P is a high commitment low with a large disjointed hitbox, these options carry heavy risk though, use them carefully.

f.S has great range and speed, but will cleanly lose to 6P's and some low profiles, so occasionally use 2S alongside it to check those options. Both are low on active frames and carry a significant total duration, so be deliberate on where their used. 236S has Millia's furthest range with good speed and can cotend with already active hitboxes due being a projectile, but again is weak to 6P's and has a hefty amount of counterhit recovery, requiring careful spacing. 214K Mirazh is another interesting option as a read, as it's a low-profile move. It allows you to close the distance against most far-reaching mids for a whiff-punish. However should be used sparingly due to its vulnerability.

5P Hitbox
5K Hitbox
f.S Hitbox

After you make the opponent block, you can cancel into one of the following moves to safely disengage (depending on spacing) with a frametrap or you can run in for pressure (Throw or c.S), leading to some of Millia's strongest positions. In the case of 5K, you can also cancel into itself or into an instant-airdash, giving you more options to approach.

5H Hitbox
236S Hitbox
214S Hitbox

Millia is very capable of controlling the skies (as you'll see in the anti-air section), so expect your opponents to advance on the ground very often, and be ready to stop them in their tracks.

Long Range

Millia doesn't have any fullscreen options, so you don't directly benefit from being here. That being said, there are a few strong options to help you close that gap into the midrange to try and land a hit. First, and most importantly, you have the movement options (airdashes, Kapel, Turbo Fall, Mirazh). It can also be beneficial to use the Disks to control ground space (specially if the opponent is respecting you too much). Millia's fast dash means she can close the distance from long to close range faster than most though, so learn to be comfortable weaving in and out of your opponent's threat range, and prepare to punish them for doing anything too risky from further ranges.

214K Hurtbox
j.236K Movement
j.236H Movement

Air Space

j.S is the star of the show for millia's aerial footsies, but other moves have their uses as well. j.H is used primarily as a jump in and sometimes after an IAD (although it should be delayed to combo into c.S or 2K on hit) and won't see much use as an air-to-air option. j.P sacrifices range and reward to be the most consistent panic option, which can be useful as a rising air-to-air (j.K is slightly slower but hits higher). But j.S will be your primary tool to navigate the air neutral as it's massive range and slight disjoint make it incredibly dominant in most matchups at winning in air-to-air situations and it has great reward on hit and counterhit, while being fast to start.

j.H Hitbox
j.S Hitbox
j.P Hitbox

CH Option Selects

An Option Select that takes advantage of GGST's Counter Hit system. The first input only comes out on normal hit (or block), and the second comes out on counterhit, allowing for better reward (damage, oki, corner-carry, etc) without having to visually confirm the counterhit. Here's a few common examples:

5H or 2H > 214S~214K: 214S comes out on block/normal hit, and 214K comes out at counterhit for Millia's most damaging combos.
c.S(1) > 2H: The key to this one pressing 2H in the same timing as when c.S(2) would normally hit. This way, you get a launcher instead. Follow it up with 214K c.S into whatever combo you prefer.

Okizeme

H Tandem Top (236H)

Millia is one of the only characters with a meterless setup that enables 50/50s and safe okizeme in Strive. However, her options vary wildly with how she got a knockdown. H Disk is her strongest option, and she can use it in a few different knockdown situations to earn mixups.

Meaty disc

Refers to when the disc itself hits meaty, which offers the best reward on hit and makes fairly robust vs reversals. Notable setups for meaty disks include 2D, 236236S, and 214P FRC. RRC will also give a hard knockdown for meaty disc, but is niche since the other metered options are more efficient.

Meaty discs yield a high reward dp safe mixup with a 50/50 followed by a lower reward high/low. The 50/50 is done by timing an airdash to crossup or stay sameside, (hold back after this briefly to block any potential dps) followed by either airdash j.H or land 2K (delay your 2K to avoid opponent's fuzzy blocking the 2K vs j.H).
Three way mixups are also available, which forfeits DP safety for a better chance of opening up the opponent. In the three way you replace the same side option with a high/low, whether its jH after the airdash for high or land 2k for low. Do note that when hitting the opponent with jH/2k that your routing becomes more limited (notably relaunch becomes inconsistent).
For far 2D hits, you are limited to the high/low options mentioned in the three-way. You can same-side airdash once, and then do a 50/50 (between empty low and airdash overhead). If you want to retain the full set of options you'll need meter to combo into a 236236S.

236236S, 66 236H:

You have access to the same mixups as the first version above. It's highly recommended that you use the dash macro for this, as it gives you forward momentum to reach the opponent. The main advantage in this route is in spending meter for damage while still getting a strong knockdown. You'll usually do this after 6H(2), 2D or 2H.

j.236P RRC, 236H:

A highly situational use of RC to setup a meaty H disc where the combo off RC would not kill but a combo from H disc oki hitting could.

214P, 236H:

Typically a H disc after 214P won't be meaty itself but millia will be able to meaty with j.S, or j.H if close enough.

Throw, 236H

H Disk doesn't hit on wake-up, so the opponent can jump out of it or mash a fast button unless you meaty with a falling air normal (before H Disk becomes active). j.H if pressed very early in the aerial arc of 236H will safejump all reversals while being a meaty to start mixups off of, making it the standard option. These are links, so you should practice the timing in training mode a bit (input 236H as soon as Millia touches the ground, before the camera can zoom out).
the opponent can Fuzzy Jump A form of defence where the defender switches from blocking to jumping at a specific time in order to block a strike then jump when there's a gap. Typically used to defend against tick throws. to avoid the RPS Rock Paper ScissorsA situation wherein an attacker and a defender have options that only beat certain responses from their opponent. For example, on wakeup a defending opponent may use a reversal to stop an attacker from using an attack, but the attacker can also block to defeat the reversal. If the attacker blocks, the defender can use the opportunity to take the offensive. of things like sameside j.H or a crossup, but you can use j.236H to counter this fuzzy timing forcing them to engage. Most of your mixup options that are available are after performing the j.H.

Options After Falling j.H

66 > j.K for an overhead
land 2K (or 66 > land 2K to mixup timings) for a low
66 > j.P j.P > 2K provides an easier timing against crouchers and hits faster which meshes better with land 2K/2S
land 2K/2S (2S is less reward but more ambigious)

It's a relatively tight window, but you could also Throw characters out of the startup of all meterless, invincible reversals after setting up H Disc. This options loses to any 6-frame normal or to jumps, so it requires conditioning against fuzzy jumping and reversals.

Counterhit 2D or 214P, 236H:

The big counterhit gives you an even better knockdown. The extra frame advantage doesn't allow for many more notable mixups, besides you can airdash to cross and back to the original side before the H disc hits to visually bait players into blocking incorrectly.

Meaties and Safejumps

Millia won't have enough advantage or proper spacing to set up H Disk in every knockdown situation. However, you can still meaty the opponent with a normal to keep pressure. In fact, that's often your best option against characters with very strong wake-up options like fast normals or invulnerable reversals.

Relaunch (up to the second c.S) > Jump cancel (7/8/9) > 66, 66 > j.H :

The ideal routing off an H disc hitting to deal damage and still have strong oki afterwards. The relaunch combo listed in the relaunch section of the combo page allows Millia to air combo into a c.S in which she can jump cancel into 2 airdashes to safejump with j.H which will hit sameside or crossup depending on the direction of her jump cancel and spacing. Practice this setup a lot as good execution is required to consistently safejump and correctly do the reset, but mastering it will let you vortex the opponent to death. note that on lightweights, only let the the first hit of c.S hit before jump canceling or your meaty j.H may whiff. Relaunch requires alterations to work on heavy weights and isn't as rewarding, leading to the next option.

(236H hits) > c.S > 2H > 214P, 236H:

This H disc is about the same situation as off throw, making it a very strong method of looping oki on heavyweights where relaunch is less useful

Air combo > j.236H, j.H:

A height dependent ender for air combos to safejump. ideally you'll be using better routing such as the Relaunch combo, but in some cases where you fail to confirm it, this serves as a secondary option.

Wallbreak with an Overdrive:

This knockdown allows Millia to IAD j.S as a safejump, but it whiffs on wakeup 6P and even on hit doesn't let Millia convert or start pressure. A non dp safe option would be to dash at the opponent and time an IAD to j.H and either crossup or not. Millia does not gain much from breaking the wall besides positive bonus (which can be a really big benefit) so consider carefully if you want to go for a wallbreak, and if you should spend meter to do it with an overdrive.

Blockstring Pressure

Like many other characters in Strive, Millia's main pressure tools are 5K and c.S. Both are 7-frame buttons that give you a variety of options, such as frametraps, mixups and pressure resets. There are some natural frametraps, but delayed gatlings are your best friends in making the offense unpredictable.

5H and 214S are your cleanest and safest ways of ending pressure. Lust Shaker has the added benefit of dealing a bit of chip and eating A LOT of Tension meter if blocked with FD, so you can delay it to check for fuzzy mashing with minimal risk. It's not gapless unless it's cancelled from 5H or 6H(2), so keep that in mind.

Avoid using 214P unless you have enough meter for RC to hedge your bet with quick jP or jK overheads into more pressure. 236S can also be used to end pressure (or to extend pressure with 66-PRC) if properly spaced while still being a frametrap, but it can be punished in some matchups.

Options from 5K:

5K dl > 5K: it's your farthest-reaching pressure normal, so this is key to opening up her stronger pressure and mixup options. Try to find the correct delay timing for it combo into itself on hit (allowing an easy confirm into 2D knockdown) while still being a frametrap on block. When they're conditioned to block, Millia can use one of the following options to approach and start her close-range pressure.
5K > Run up c.S or Run up Throw: this puts Millia in a much stronger position to keep applying pressure.
5K > IAD j.S or IAD j.H: a fast overhead attack that goes over most grounded buttons that are commonly mashed on defense. Mix it up with the grounded run options.
5K > 236S: 3 frame gap. It's very useful to end pressure from max range. Also frametraps from 2K, 2D and long range 5H.
5K > 6H: leaves a big gap, it's punishable on whiff, loses to 6P and trades (unfavorably) with jabs. Still, it can be useful from max range, as it beats everything else.

Frametraps from c.S:

c.S(2) dl > 2S dl > 5H > 236S~214K: standard, safe blockstring to frametrap your opponent into not mashing out of pressure, enabling all the options in the next section. depending on spacing and dash momentum, this can also work with f.S or 2H. On heavy counterhit, 214K comes out instead of 236S, allowing for an easy confirm into Millia's most damaging combos.
c.S(2) > 6H(2): there is a natural frametrap between the normals and between the hits of 6H. When they're conditioned to block, you can reset pressure or Throw after c.S. You can also gimmick your opponent by cancelling 6H with Fast Fall, Mirazh or Kapel into Throw, but don't overuse this.
c.S(2) > 2S > 236S: 1 or 2 frame gap. This also works from f.S.

Mix-ups from c.S:

TK j.236P: the instant overhead is a Millia classic. The fear of getting hit by this is a big part of what makes c.S scary in pressure (a gapless 50/50 between delayed 2S and TK Moon). You can input the TK motion as 8j.236P or as 2369j.P on either hit of c.S. It's very punishable on block, so use sparingly if you don't have meter for Red RC on block and on hit. It can also be done from 5K, but it leaves a 4 frame gap, at least.
Walk up Throw or walk up c.S: leaves a big gap, but there is very little incentive for the opponent to mash here. It allows you to keep pressure. It's specially strong if you had dash momentum from the first c.S, as you won't have to walk forward for the second c.S.
IAD j.H: it's usually a cross-up, and it allows you to reset pressure on block if you airdash-cancel for a second j.H. However, be careful about landing after the first j.H, as it has little hitstun/blockstun, and you can be punished if you landed the hit too high.

Additional tricks:

c.S > 6K or 5K > 6K: a slow overhead that may catch the opponent being overwhelmed with options to look out for. cancel into 214S to be safe on block and convert on hit.
6H(1) > j.236K, Throw or 6H(2) > 214K, Throw: it's easily reactable if the opponent is looking for it, and mashing in blockstun from 6H will be very safe as there is no natural frametrap. A knowledge check or sleeping at the wheel test.
c.S(2) > 214K: this one is interesting because it crosses up, so the opponent's buttons or Throw are going to whiff if they mashed early. It beats all mashing (you can even Punish any 5P with Throw), but loses to delayed mashing or reacting.

Metered options:

c.S TK j.236p j.88 RRC: The go-to TK Badmoon option with meter, on block Millia can time an airdash into j.H that will either crossup or stay same side, simply land into 2K, or crossup 2K, and so on. On hit, the opponent is launched up and Millia can use c.S or go right into j.D to do the relaunch combo.